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complaint may make a summary (or, as it is termed,
nuisance) order on such person, which order may be either
for abatement, for prohibition, or for closing, and in the
former two cases may specify the works to be carried out.
If the person fails to comply with the provisions of the
nuisance order within the time specified in it he will be
liable to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings a day during
default. It is important to add, that by Section 8 the
Magistrate, in cases where the person causing a nuisance,
or the owner or occupier, cannot be found, may address the
nuisance order to the Sanitary Authority, who will then
have to execute it.
There are two other important provisions in relation to
nuisances to which attention should be drawn. The one is
that, when a nuisance arising outside any district affects
any of the inhabitants of that district, the Sanitary
Authority may proceed against the person offending as
though he were in their own district. The other is, that if
any person wilfully damages or destroys any sanitary
provision or apparatus, he shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding five pounds.
SPECIAL REGULATIONS AS TO THE EXAMINATION
OF WATER CLOSETS AND OTHER SANITARY
ARRANGEMENTS.
In connection with the sanitary arrangements of
houses, it is expressly enacted by Clause 40, that the
Sanitary Authority may examine any of the following
works, that is to say, any water-closet, earth-closet, privy,
ash-pit, or cesspool, and any water-supply, sink, trap,
syphon, pipe, or other works or apparatus connected